PBS Bid Tools for Envoy pilots
Your bid month, start to finish
Six tools that hand off to each other: build a bid, plan the blocks, pick the pairings, check the bid before the window closes, learn from the award, and watch the year improve. Scroll to see each one work.
Step 1 · Build
Bid Builder
Answer a short form — trip lengths, days off, weekends, credit target — and get a NavBlue bid written for you, line by line, in the syntax PBS expects.
- Field-tested strategy presets: max days off, max credit, commuter.
- Tests the bid against the real packet before you enter it.
- Graduated fallback groups so a junior bid still completes a line.
Preferences
NavBlue bid · Bid Group 1
- AwardAward Pairings If Length = 3 Days
- PreferPrefer Off Sat, Sun
- SetSet Condition Maximum Credit Window 85:00
- AvoidAvoid Pairings If Check-In Time < 06:00
- ClearClear Schedule and Start Next Bid Group
Step 2 · Plan
Trip Block Planner
Lay real pairings into the month as back-to-back blocks and see the line take shape: days on, days off, credit. When a month can't be built the way you want, it tells you why, day by day.
- Same-day alternates for every slot, in your bid order.
- One click turns a planned block into an ordered NavBlue line.
- Included with the PBS suite on any paid plan.
Step 3 · Pick
Pairing Search / Filter
Slice the monthly packet by length, layover city, report and release times, credit, and more. Shortlist the trips you'd actually take and hand the list straight to the Bid Builder.
- Every filter narrows the count live, so you see what's left.
- Saved pick lists per month, reusable in the Builder and Planner.
- Enriched itineraries: legs, layovers and hotels per pairing.
| Pairing | Len | Layover | Report | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1234 | 3d | SEA | 10:15 | 18:20 |
| P1301 | 2d | SEA | 06:00 | 12:10 |
| P1355 | 3d | DEN | 11:30 | 19:05 |
| P1402 | 3d | SEA | 05:45 | 17:50 |
| P1410 | 4d | SEA | 12:00 | 24:30 |
| P1466 | 3d | SEA | 13:20 | 18:45 |
| P1490 | 1d | — | 07:10 | 05:30 |
| P1512 | 3d | SLC | 10:00 | 18:00 |
Step 4 · Analyze
Bid Analyzer
Upload the bid you entered in NavBlue and read it back in plain English. It flags the lines that fight each other, the missing gate NavBlue would reject, and how likely each group is to hold at your seniority.
- Critical fixes first, then suggestions — with a pastable corrected bid.
- Uses last month's Reasons Report to ground its advice in your real outcome.
- Suggested trip blocks and same-day substitutes for every hand-picked group.
- 1Award Pairings If Length = 3 Days
- 2Prefer Off Sat, Sun
- 3Prefer Off Sep 4 – Sep 7
- 4Set Condition Maximum Credit Window 85:00
- 5Award Pairings If Layover In SEA
- 6Award Pairings
Step 5 · Review
Post Bid Award Evaluator
After awards drop, upload the Reasons Report. See which bid group PBS honored, what it discarded on the way, how your line sits in the credit window, and what to change next month.
- Cascade timeline: which group executed and why the others fell.
- Month-over-month trend that compares like with like.
- Awarded pairings joined to the packet: legs, layovers, hotels.
Reasons Report · SEP 2026
Bid Group 3 of 5 was honored
2 groups discarded before it
Month over month · in window
Step 6 · Track
PBS Dashboard
Everything the five tools saved, in one place: templates, analyses, evaluations, your seniority movement, and this month's awarded line — plus every tutorial.
- One card per tool, with your most recent work a click away.
- Seniority and in-window trend across the bid year.
- Current month's awarded pairings with leg-by-leg detail.
Bid Builder
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Pairing Search
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Bid Analyzer
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